Use Cases
Built for every musician who performs with tracks
Whether you're a solo artist playing to a click or a music director coordinating ten musicians, TraxDeck is designed around your workflow — not the other way around.
Keys Player
Live performance & IEM mixes
The problem
Running backing tracks from a DAW while also playing means juggling two jobs. A single wrong click in a DAW on stage can derail the whole show.
With TraxDeck
TraxDeck separates playback from performance. Map your footswitch to advance tracks, control your own IEM mix independently, and never touch a laptop during a song.
Vocalist / Solo Artist
Full productions without a band
The problem
A full backing track with no way to mute the wrong part or adjust click level mid-show forces you to mix everything before the gig and hope for the best.
With TraxDeck
Per-stem control means your click stays at the right level in your IEM while the audience hears the full mix. Mute the piano stem for an acoustic section with a single tap.
Music Director
Coordinating the full band
The problem
Managing stems for 10+ musicians means every person needs a different mix. One track list shared between everyone leads to arguments and last-minute changes the night before a show.
With TraxDeck
Build per-musician mix presets per song. The drummer hears click + bass. The vocalist hears pads + click at -6dB. Everyone gets exactly what they rehearsed with, every show.
Drummer / Percussionist
Click track & cue management
The problem
A late or early track start exposes the drummer immediately. If the click drops for even a bar, the whole band notices — in front of an audience.
With TraxDeck
TraxDeck gives the drummer a hardware-redundant click source. If anything fails, failover happens within one bar. The click never stops.
Touring Production Engineer
Reliability at scale
The problem
A single point of failure in the backing track rig can cancel a show. Venue-to-venue variations in audio routing mean the rig has to be rebuilt mentally every day.
With TraxDeck
Dual-machine redundancy keeps the show going. Named output routing means the configuration travels with the show — plug in, load show file, done.
Production / AV Team
Video, lighting, and show control
The problem
Keeping LED wall video, lighting cues, and audio in sync across separate systems means complex timecode routing, extra gear, and more failure points.
With TraxDeck
TraxDeck outputs DMX, Art-Net, and frame-accurate video from a single machine. Your lighting desk and LED wall follow the audio clock — no drift, no extra computer.
In Depth
A full production from a single machine
Here's how a keys player and music director uses TraxDeck to run a 90-minute arena show for 8 musicians.
Before the Show
Load the show file, not a laptop session
TraxDeck show files capture every song's stem layout, output routing, mix presets, and set list order. Load one file at sound check and you're done. No DAW sessions to manage, no template to remember to update.
- One show file per production — versioned and backed up
- Import stems directly from Ableton, Logic, or any folder structure
- Mix presets stored per song, not per session
During the Show
Eyes up, not on a screen
MIDI footswitch control means the MD can stand at front-of-stage and advance tracks, adjust the click level, or mute a stem — without touching the laptop. The laptop just plays.
- Full MIDI learn — any footswitch, any action
- Track advance, play, stop, and cue navigation all mappable
- Visual confidence monitor output shows what's playing and what's next
If Something Goes Wrong
The backup is always ready
A second machine runs in lockstep at all times. If the primary fails, the secondary takes over within one musical bar — before the audience or band notice anything has happened.
- Active-active sync over any Cat5 connection
- Automatic failover — no manual switching required
- Post-show failure report logs exactly what happened and when